The littlest colonialist

[randy_byers]

Well, I'm making my first attempt to post a picture to LJ. We'll see how well it works.

This is a picture of me and some neighbor kids in the Government Compound on Yap in the '60s. I'm not sure which year, but I appear to be closer to six than to ten, which was my age range out there. I turned six a few months after we moved out there in the summer of 1966.

These neighbor kids were not Yapese. They were Belauan (or Palauan, in those unreconstructed days.) Theirs were the first uncircumsized penises I had ever seen, although I didn't know that until I finally figured out at age eighteen that I was circumsized. I just knew theirs looked different from mine. Well, what does that matter when you have a gun in your hand?





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Comments

[jamesb.livejournal.com]

what a cool photo, there is nothing to say its 40 years old, it could have been taken yesterday, IMHO.

and dontcha look like the dude!

J

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I dunno. The Dude was a little hairier than that.

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

darn cute little colonist you were

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

er, i mean, colonialist

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Anything but colonoscopy!

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

I think I originally meant to say colonizer. Colonist is cross between the two.

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

Wonderful :o)

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Everybody loves an oppressor.

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're an evil colonialist peegdog. I love the way you're oppressing the natives with your shiny Merkin firearm.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

"Cowboy, with Indians."

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I find the gun very amusing, too. Yeah!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the gun, unlike the tricycle I had before we moved to Yap. Or wait, all of a sudden I caught a whiff of what it smelled like when you fired off a cap ...